U.S. History (Period 8A) Assignments
- Instructors
- Term
- Spring 2014
- Department
- MS Social Studies
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8th Grade Social Studies STAAR
About This Study Guide:
This year your student will be taking the U.S. History STAAR Test
The list below gives a break down of the questions from each category.
There are 4 categories on the 8th Grade Social Studies test. The chart below shows how many questions you can expect for each category. Category
Number of Questions
History
20
Geography and Culture
12
Government and Citizenship
12
Economics, Science, Technology, and Society
8
The STAAR test will also assess Social Studies Skills. You’ll need to be able to:
Interpret maps, graphs, and charts to show the relationship between geography and history.
Explain and use primary and secondary source documents, considering the frame of reference, historical context, and point of view.
Analyze information by sequencing, categorizing, identifying cause-and-effect relationships, comparing, contrasting, finding the main idea, summarizing, making generalizations and predictions, drawing inferences and conclusions, and developing connections between historical events over time.
Know and use social studies vocabulary.
How to Answer a Multiple Choice Question:
Examine the question. Read the entire question. Study any pictures, charts, passages, or maps.
Recall what you know about the topic. Feel free to jot notes on your test.
Answer the question. Check all of the answer choices and eliminate any choices that are obviously wrong.
General Study Tips:
Plan ahead. You don’t want to try to cram everything in the day or the week before the exam.
Pick the right time of day to study. Try not to wait until late at night when you are too tired to focus.
Find a study partner or group.
Read, reread, and write, and rewrite your notes!
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4th 6 weeks Project
DUE: February 3rd or 4th (depending on what day you come to my class)
Brief Description
This lesson uses a "hands-on" approach for teaching students about famous African Americans. Students research a person's life and then make artistic portrait and biography paragraph.
Objectives
Students will
research a famous person in African-American history.
summarize historic information.
give an oral report.
make a artistic portrait.
Materials Needed
- Poster board (any color)
- Biography
- Pictures or drawings of famous African American.
Lesson Plan
Students will pick from a list of the names of famous African Americans. The list will include contemporary’s figures, such as Oprah Winfrey, Tiger Woods, Venus and Serena Williams, and Whitney Houston, or historical figures, such as Mary McLeod Bethune, Harriet Tubman, Benjamin Banneker, and George Washington Carver.
Follow the instructions below: (In no particular order)
1) Select an African American from the list and research that person's life.
2) Draw or trace a picture of the person on a piece of (white) copy paper. The art can be an original work or a tracing from another resource. Students may cut and paste pictures also.
3) Students might place the paper on a lighted overhead projector or press it against a window if tracing is difficult. Another alternative is to use a pencil to trace the image and then use a bold marker to trace over it.
4) Color the picture with crayon, map colors, markers, paint, or whatever color source you prefer.
5) Place the picture on poster board.
6) Research your person
7) Type a well written bio of the person that you are presenting your project over.
8) Place Bio on poster board
9) Create a title for your project.
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Also make sure you bring map colors or markers......
6B make sure that you also bring your French and Indian Graphic Organizer completed.
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7th Study notes and Handout and map pgs. 44-45
8th Study notes and map
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Study Notes for short Quiz over Exploration of United States